According to a local rights group in Sudan, three churches in a town were burnt down in December 2019 and quickly rebuilt, only to be burnt down again earlier this month. Human Rights and Development Organization said that a Catholic Church, an Orthodox Church, and a...
A senior church leader in Nigeria, who was abducted in early January, has reportedly now been killed. Reverend Lawan Andimi, a state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), was taken during a raid in Michika, a town in Nigeria’s Adamawa State. A video...
Pope Francis has announced that he is appointing a woman for the first time to a managerial role in the Secretariat of State, one of the most important departments in the Vatican. Francesca Di Giovanni, who has worked at the Secretariat for 27 years, will be elevated...
Former nuns “abandoned” by the Catholic Church, including some who became prostitutes to survive, have been sheltered at a Vatican residence for more than a year, a Brazilian cardinal said. Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz confirmed the house’s existence at an undisclosed...
Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, the current shadow business secretary and a practising Catholic, has become the sixth candidate to enter Labour’s leadership contest in Briton. Long-Bailey struck a strongly left-wing note in her article that announced her campaign, pledging to...
